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...In the 19th century it exported Maryland and Pennsylvania wheat. Turnpikes and then a railroad connected it to the Ohio valley. That essential argument for Baltimore remains today....
...This year it will take me 13 hours to reach the crackling fire of the familial hearth, a highway odyssey from Illinois crossing Indiana, Ohio and, at last, the 300-mile homestretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...In 1940 the Pennsylvania Turnpike was a trendsetter. But in 1956 the federal government set up the Highway Trust Fund to commit all federal gas tax money to roads....
...Linking interstate highway 81 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the road is just an overnight drive away from half the country’s population....
...However, Mr Castellucci said the cancellation of the Pennsylvania Turnpike privatisation had not been a good precedent....
...Here, six men, including a former state senator, are awaiting trial over their roles in alleged corruption at another big infrastructure operator, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Authority, which runs 500 miles...
...Political opposition scotched the sale in September 2008 for $12.8bn of a 75-year lease to operate the Pennsylvania Turnpike toll roads and the privatisation last year of some Port of Virginia operations...
...They included the 2008 effort to privatise the Pennsylvania Turnpike, aimed specifically at raising funds to repair the state’s bridges....
...Turnpike toll road....
...Political resistance stymied an ambitious $12.8bn proposal to privatise the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 2008....
...In 2008 a $12.8bn deal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike toll highway system to Spanish company Abertis and Citigroup’s infrastructure investment group was shelved as mounting opposition from workers and...
...His other work – on the $3.8bn lease of the Indiana Toll Road, the proposed privatisation of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the proposed privatisation of the port of Virginia – is further evidence that he...
...Last year, the Pennsylvania state legislature killed off the proposed $12.8bn privatisation of the Pennsylvania Turnpike toll road....
...Pennsylvania Transportation Partners, led by Citigroup and Abertis, a Spanish toll road operator, pulled out of the deal to take a 75-year lease over the Pennsylvania Turnpike because of problems winning...
...The publicly-owned Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission wanted federal permission to turn 311 miles of US Interstate-80 through Pennsylvania into a toll road under an act passed by Pennsylvania’s state legislature...
...Turnpike Commission....
...However, many Pennsylvania legislators, both Republicans and Governor Rendell’s fellow Democrats, would prefer to keep the existing, public Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in charge....
...The governor of Pennsylvania is seeking legislative approval for an agreement signed in May to lease the tolled Pennsylvania Turnpike to the private sector for 75 years at a cost of $12.8bn....
...This allows the Turnpike Commission to raise tolls on the turnpike and ask the federal government for the right to toll Pennsylvania’s presently untolled I-80 interstate....
...A consortium led by Spain’s Abertis has set a new infrastructure record after the US state of Pennsylvania accepted its $12.8bn bid for a 75-year lease on the 500-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike....
...However, the careful language used by Edward Rendell, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, as he announced the victory of a consortium led by Spain’s Abertis in a competition to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...According to people involved, banks that were contracted to finance a bid by a consortium of Australia’s Macquarie and Cintra, the Spanish toll road operator, to run the Pennsylvania Turnpike are now financing...
...Banks contracted to finance a bid by a consortium of Australia’s Macquarie and Cintra, the Spanish toll road operator, to run the Pennsylvania Turnpike are now financing other bids....
...Criteria is also part of a consortium led by Abertis, the related infrastructure group, which last Monday broke US infrastructure records with its winning $12.8bn bid to run the Pennsylvania Turnpike....
...A consortium including Abertis, the Spanish toll road operator, and Citigroup has offered $12.8bn for a 75 year concession to run the Pennsylvania Turnpike....
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